In addition to music and business, Kyle is also a part-time photographer.

Kyle Eroche is a musician, audio engineer, and budding entrepreneur. I met Kyle in Vietnam through my friend, and fellow Roamer, Thomas Dempsey. In Hanoi, Kyle was testing the waters of the remote work lifestyle, something that was becoming more and more appealing to him. Kyle is the perfect ambassador for the new direction this blog will take in 2018, away from the remote workers I've been traveling with this year, toward the broader range of professionals I connect with every day. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

When you were 17, what did you want to be?

At that time I definitely wanted to play music. I had been playing music since I was 14 or 15, playing shows in New Orleans. I was young to do it at that time, but I just wanted to play. I was always scholastically involved, but I never had to put forth any effort in school, never. I was always doing extracurricular stuff; that was what I cared about, and I took a lot of pride in that. I found something that I was passionate about, and I only wanted to do what I cared about. My mom kind of lived in fear of that because she didn’t know if I could support myself. I rebelled against that a lot in my angsty teenage years.

What is the When I Was 17 Project?

When I Was 17 is a blog series dedicated to collecting the varied stories of people's career paths, what they envisioned themselves doing when they were teenagers and how that evolved over the course of their lives. I started this project with the goal of illustrating that it's okay not to know exactly what you want to do when you're 17; many successful people didn't, and these are a few of their stories.